Smart People Reviews
East Bay Express
Doesn't exactly oust The Royal Tenenbaums or The Squid and the Whale, but this family-go-round sitcom is a lot more accessible.
Fayetteville Free Weekly
Smart People is a film of chuckles about smart but chuckle-headed people.
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| Original Score: 3.0/5
Cinematical
It's so well-made, so well-acted and so impressively (for lack of a better word) smart that anyone who seeks it out will find something to admire and enjoy in its craft and heart.
Guardian [UK]
Smarter than your average romantic comedy it may be, but this family-dysfunction indie is playing it a bit safe.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Palo Alto Weekly
Award-winning commercial director Noam Murro helms a fine cast playing all-too-familiar roles.
| Original Score: 2/4
Entertainment Insiders
Cutesy early and then becomes more complicated.
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| Original Score: 3/4
ReelzChannel.com
All atmosphere and no plot makes Smart People a dull watch.
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| Original Score: 5/10
DVD Review
... a deadly dull narrative about four depressed stereotypes who spend an hour and a half going from unhappy to slightly less unhappy.
7M Pictures
The charm of Smart People is watching these characters squirm and eventually come out of their shells.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Views
Even in pointing out the falseness of talking down to people for the sake of coming across as intelligent, Smart People does just that.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page stand out here as a father and daughter who may have high IQ's -- but rate below zero in terms of their human relations skills.
Metromix.com
Works too hard to achieve a quirky tone that should come effortlessly.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Reel Film Reviews
...succeeds more as an actor's showcase than as a fully-realized, consistently compelling film.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
NewsBlaze
A cast of such sad sacks, that it's pretty astonishing when the lusty sparks begin to fly between any of them, and with an overload of brain power coming across as some kind of mental impairment. Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex and the UniverCity comedown.
Sin Magazine
It wanders all over the place before ending abruptly. With the talent involved, it seems like such a waste.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Atlantic City Weekly
Dennis Quaid is the college professor of your nightmares in the dryly humorous, laid-back comedy 'Smart People.'
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| Original Score: 3/4
The Cinema Source
This is yet another indie populated by quirky characters %u2013 it's no surprise that it came out of Sundance %u2013 but for once, it doesn't overdo the quirk, minus a few exceptions.
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| Original Score: B+
Windy City Times
Audiences who love seeing cranky, emotionally blocked characters find a chance to bloom will be happy to endure the withering onscreen insults but I didn't have much use for these dyspeptic folks and was happy to see them go.
ViewLondon
This is very much a dysfunctional-drama-by-numbers and there's very little here you haven't seen elsewhere but it's worth seeing for a film-stealing performance by Thomas Haden Church.
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| Original Score: 3/5
